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• Immigration Prosecutions Up: FI2W’s Valeria Fernández on Public Radio’s The Takeaway

  
  Feet In 2 Worlds, Immigration News — Authority: 536
  FI2W reporter Valeria Fernández was interviewed this Wednesday on public radio’s The Takeaway to talk about a sharp increase in immigration-related federal prosecutions with hosts Celeste Headlee and John Hockenberry and reporter John Schwartz of The New York Times.You can listen to the conversation below or you ...
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• Facebook Fiend Faces 50 Years

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Internet , Media World , Technology The murky waters of the social media space just got a little clearer. An environment famous for having gray areas found boundaries in a Wisconsin courtroom Tuesday when a local teenager pleaded no contest to two felonies. The student, Anthony R. Stancl of New ...
  2 days ago

• Jail for woman who drugged daughter for sexual assault

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Melbourne, Dec 23 (IANS) The jail sentence has been doubled for an Australian woman who drugged her 13-year-old daughter, removed her clothes and left her lying naked in bed so that she could be sexually assaulted by the woman’s partner. Her photos were also taken on a mobile phone.The woman known as ‘MS’ ...
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• Change You Better Believe In: Immigration Prosecutions at Record High in South Texas

  
  La Frontera Times — Authority: 439
  
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• Streamlining Immigration Justice

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times’ John Schwartz reports that federal prosecutions of immigration violators made a big jump last year — and now make up more than half of all federal prosecutions. Why focus federal prosecutions on immigration violators at a time when white collar chicanery makes the headlines? Because it’s ...
  3 days ago

• Sharp Rise in Immigration Filings Drives Criminal Prosecution Stats

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Federal criminal prosecutions reached an all-time high in Fiscal Year 2009, driven by a sharp increase in immigration prosecutions. According to case-by-case data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), overall federal prosecutions were up nearly 9 percent from the previous ...
  4 days ago

• Guantanamo terror suspect claims denied speedy trial; violates his U.S. Constitutional rights

  
  zTruth — Authority: 431
  Ahmed Ghailani is the first Guantanamo terror suspect brought to the U.S. by President Obama. Ghailani claims his U.S. rights were violated- but he lived and was picked up in a foreign country suspected of being an al-Qaeda terrorist who aided the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Giving U.S. rights to ...
  6 days ago

• Zambian Government Rejects DPP Step-down Calls

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Zambian government has rejected growing calls for the resignation of the country’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Chalwe Mchenga who is accused of being compromised by the State in his decisions. Mchenga has been embroiled in controversy for the last four months after he refused to appeal against the ...
  6 days ago

• Convictions for homophobic hate crime increase

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 684
  Figures from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have shown a ten per cent rise in four years in the numbers of people being convicted for homophobic and transphobic hate crimes.
  1 week ago

• Morocco

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  Brian Whitaker, al-Bab, Moroccan internet crimes, 16 Dec 09 "A blogger and the owner of an internet cafe have been jailed in Morocco."
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• Pakistan Court Declares Amnesty Law Illegal

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  The Pakistan Supreme Court today declared that an amnesty granted to thousands of people, including the country’s president, is illegal. The move opens the door for prosecutions on a range of offenses, both criminal and civil.
  1 week ago

• Assisted suicide guidance will lead to legalised killing, MPs and peers warn

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  New guidelines on assisted suicide prosecutions issued following the case of Debbie Purdy, the multiple sclerosis sufferer, will legalise killing a group of MPs and peers have warned.
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• Half of MPs say doctors should be allowed to help a terminally-ill patient commit suicide

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  More than half of MPs believe doctors should be allowed to assist a terminally ill patient to commit suicide, a survey has found.
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• Assisted suicide: disabled should not be allowed legally to kill themselves

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  People should not be allowed legally to commit suicide just because they are disabled, campaigners have told Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions.
  1 week ago

• Sadequee/Ahmed case (USA)

  
  Virtually Islamic — Authority: 138
  R. Robin McDonald, Fulton County Daily Report/law.com, Federal Judge Sentences 2 Muslim Americans for Conspiring to Aid Terror Groups, 15 Dec 09, "The Internet prohibition followed testimony at the trials of Sadequee and his co-defendant, former Georgia Tech student Syed Haris Ahmed, that identified the duos forays ...
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• Lights, Cameras, Plea Agreement!

  
  taxgirl — Authority: 552
  It sounds like something right out of Hollywood: a lawyer takes a kickback in exchange for setting up wealthy clients in a multi-billion dollar tax loss-generating scheme. He then applies for a false passport using an assumed name – which passport is found, along with crystal meth, date-rape drugs and horse ...
  1 week ago

• Court overturns main charges against attorney Paul Minor

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 529
  My latest. If you are not familiar with the case, see links at bottom## by Larisa Alexandrovna The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion on Friday overturning one of... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
  2 weeks ago

• Siegelman, SCOTUS, and Hon. Services Statute

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 529
  Don Siegelman discusses his conviction and his efforts to appeal his case to the Supreme Court [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
  2 weeks ago

• DHS Oversight Hearing Likely to Be Contentious

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 737
  In advance of a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday morning, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has released a statement announcing his disapproval with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s immigration policies and enforcement. “As many as twenty million ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stop prosecuting our American heroes

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In what must be one of the most outrageous criminal prosecutions in American history, the U.S. military is dragging three Navy SEALs into court to face criminal charges. Their crime: punching a terrorist in the mouth and giving him a bloody lip. The alleged "victim" of this so-called assault is not just any old ...
  2 weeks ago

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